Working Selves, Moral Selves: Crafting the Good person in the Northern Plains
dc.contributor.author | Fricke, Tom | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-06T15:56:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-06T15:56:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-01 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91305 | |
dc.description | A later version of this working paper appears in Elizabeth Rudd and Lara Descartes (eds.), 2008, The Changing landscape of Work and Family in the american Middle Class: Reports from the Field. New York: Lexington Books, pp. 17-39. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This paper explores transformations in ideas of the good person as family member and worker, across generations and in the context of certain loss. The themes addressed include the moral sources of personhood in place, family, and work. Primary material comes from the contemporary everyday life a farm family and its continuity with the founding stories of ancestors who arrived at the turn of the 20th century. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, University of Michigan | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | North Dakota | en_US |
dc.subject | Great Plains | en_US |
dc.subject | Richardton | en_US |
dc.subject | Farming Family Life | en_US |
dc.subject | Moral Culture | en_US |
dc.subject | Work Ethic | en_US |
dc.subject | Family | en_US |
dc.subject | Ethnography -- U.S. | en_US |
dc.title | Working Selves, Moral Selves: Crafting the Good person in the Northern Plains | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Anthropology and Archaeology | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Anthropology, Department of | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Institute for Social Research | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Population Studies Center | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91305/1/workingselves.2008.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Anthropology, Department of |
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